Without listening to their judgment. We'd be adrift.
and would be able to bias the results of our data collection. By focusing in various ways.
- For instance, if we developed a pill that gave people the experience of meaning didn't result in a clear idea about how to live life. We will be able to use experiences like Brenda's as a lever to dose everyone with our pill.
- If we look at things that are important but automatic and not experienced as meaningful. We can make all sorts of arbitrary claims about what automatic things underlie everyone's experience with meaning.
If we wait until Brenda finds a way to make that experience her own to shape her life around it. Then we won't have this problem or for another example.
If instead we force ourselves to find someone else besides Carla, who's attending that to that thing and finding meaningful. Then again, we're listening to human judgment, Rather than arbitrary projections about what's important.